The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-01
}V0MAN'S OPPORTUNITY.
Di5COURSE BY REV. DR.. TALMAGE
lAT THE HAMPTONS.


CD Made Man and Woman for Spe-
cinc Work and to Move in Particular
pheres Woman SuTragists Unfit to
ote or to Keep House.
TIE HAaPToNs, Aug. 2S.-"Woman's
o. )ortunity'' was the subject of dis
&C rse by the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
j.. D., today, and his text: $50 God
CT 1ted man in his own image, the
il .ge of God created he him; male and
fo lale created he them. .''-Genesis i,
q Following is the sermon in full:
n other words God, who can make no
n take, made man and woman for
s, citic work and to move in particular
81 eres-man to be regnant in his realm:
man to be dominant in hers. The
be ndary line between Italy and Switzer-
la i, between England and Scotland, is
no more thoroughly marked than this
d. 1nction between the empire mascu-
lii and the empire feminine. So en-
til ly dissimilar are the fields to which
Gci called them, that you can no
M re compare them than you can oxygen
AM hydrogen, water and grass, trees and
81, S. All this talk about the superiority
Of me sex to the other is an everlasting
weste of ink and speech. A jeweler
m have a scale 50 delicate that he can
weigh the dust of diamonds; but where
Rr" the scales so delicate that you can
Weigh in them affection against affec-
tol, sentiment against sentiment, thought
against thought, soul against soul, a
mans world against woman's world?
Yea come out with your stereotyped re-
mark, the man is superior to woman in
intellect; and then l open on my desk
the swarthy, iron typed, thunder bolted
writings of Harriet Martineau and Eliza
beth Browning and George Eliot. You
come on with your stereotyped remark
about wOman's superiority to man in the
item of affection, but l ask you where
WAS there more capacity to love than in
John the disciple, and Robert McCheyne,
the Scotchman, and John Summerfield,
The Methodist, and Henry Martin, the
missionary? The heart of those men was
so large that after you had rolled
into 1t two hemispheres, there was room
still left to marshal the hosts of
heaven, and set up the throne
of the eternal Jehovah. l deny to man
the throne intellectual. l deny to woman
IT, throne afTectional. No human phrase
Ology will ever define the spheres. while
there is an intuition by which we know
wien a man is in his realm and when a
xoman is in her realm. and when either
Of them is out of it. No bungling legis-
L., ne ought to attempt to make a defini-
tio1 or to say: This is the line and
tl is the line." My theory is that if a
wuInan wants to vote, she ought to vote,
and that if a man wants to embroider
and keep house, he ought to be allowed
to embroider and keep house. There are
masculine women and there are effemi-
nate men. My theory is that you have
no right to interfere with any ones doing
al thing that is righteous. Albany and
" ,shingtOn might as well decree by
lie Station how high brown thrashel
81 uld fly, or how deep trout should
81 nge, as to try to seek out the height OF
doth of a woman's duty. The question
oi capacity viii settle finally the whole
question, the whole subject. When {
man is prepared to preach, she vii
pi ach, and neither conference nor pres
bttery can hinder her. When a woman
Is prepared to move in highest CONNER
ci spheres, she will have great influence
Oh the exchange and no boards of trade
can hinder her / want woman to un
dc stand that heart and brain can OVERLY
Arv barrier that politicians may set up
an that nothing can keep her back o.
keNp her down but the question of inca
p ity.
There are women, know, of most un
dC C7irablc nature, who wander up anC
d. yn the country-having no homes O
IT, II own or forSaking their own home
alking about their rights; and w,
kr0w very well that they themselves ar
81 neither to vote nor fit to keep house
IT cir mission seems TO be to huniliat
thu two sexes at the thought of what an.
ore of us might become. No one woult
v Mt to live under the laws that suCl
women would enact or TO have cast upol
Sc ietv the children that such womel
would raise. But | shall show you thi
ID rning that the best rights that woman
cc1 own she already has in her posses
81 a; that her position IN this country q
this time is not one of COMMUNICATION
a. one of congratulation; that the gran
q, lr ard power of her realm have neve
Vet been appreciated; that she sits to-da
cL throne 50 high that all til
thrones of earth piled on top c
evah other would not make fC
X n footstool. Here is the platform
or which she stands. Away down beloN
Il re the ballot box and the congfessiona
lemblage and the legislative hal
Y oman always has voted and alway
vnvote. Our great-grandfather though
trey were by their votes putting Wasl
il ton into the presidential chair. NJ
IL lNo
hn and the habits she incuicated, mad
impresident. 1t was a Christian mother
hand dropping the ballot when Lof
Bacon wrote, and Newton philosophical
ard Alfred the Great governed, and Jon;
than Edwards thundered of Judgment
come. How many men there have bee
IL high political station who would hay
been insufficient to stand the test to whC
1beir moral principle was put had it n'
been for "A wife's voice that encourage
them to do right, and a wife's pray'
tl.at sounded louder than the clamor
plrtisanShip? Why, my friends, the rigl
OF suffrage, as we men exercise 1t, seen
to be a feeble thing. You, a Christis
nan. come up TO the ballot box and yc
d.op your vote. Right after you comes
liuerrine or sot-the otfscouring of Il
81 treet-and he drops his vote: and /
.-runteracts yours. But if III the quiet
home life daughter by her Christian d
Aueanor, wife by her industry, moth
b. her faithfulness, casts a vote iii +
hit direction, then nothing can resist
= Il the influence of that vote will thr
I rough the eternities.
Ny chief anxiety then is, not tn
= oman have other rights accorded he
It That she, by the grace of God, rise
+ the appreciation of the glorious rigl
se already possesses. This morning
sail only have time to speak Of o
Grand and all absorbing right that eve